Fusion of Quickbird MS and RADARSAT SAR data for urban land-cover mapping: Object-based and knowledge-based approach

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1391-1410

  Ban, Yifang ^a   Hu, Hongtao ^a   Rangel, I M ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LAND USE; PHOTOMAPPING; RADAR IMAGING; SPECTROSCOPY;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DECISION LEVEL FUSION; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; OVERALL ACCURACIES; RULE-BASED APPROACH; RULE-BASED CLASSIFICATION; URBAN LAND COVER MAPPINGS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; QUICKBIRD; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BRASSICA NAPUS; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 77951132822     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160903475415     Document Type: Article

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